Going On: Poems 2000 (Via Folios, 23) [Paperback]

Daniela Gioseffi (Author)

Book Description

Series: Via Folios, 23 | Publication Date: October 16, 2000

Poetry. Gioseffi was awarded a 1990 American Book Award for her compendium of world literature, Women on War: International Voices, and a 1993 World Peace Award from the Ploughshares Fund for On Prejudice: A Global Perspective. WORD WOUNDS AND WATER FLOWERS, a previous book of poetry, is also available from SPD. Visionary and powerful. With tremednous vitality...Gioseffi is a gifted, graceful, and moving writer -- Galway Kinnell.

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After Grief
August When Spiders Spin
Autumn
Breathing Light And Night Into Song
Daphne, Dear Laurel Tree
Divorce Or Corrasable Bond
Going On
The Hitler Spring
The House
How To Gain Ambition Again
I Used To Believe
Mid-march
Monday Morning
Morning Fawn
Morning In The Forest
New Beginning
Not Always
Orta Nova, Provincia Di Puglia
The Plan
Preparing The Eggplant
Ready For Spring Blooms
The River Otter Goes Like Me
Shadow
Sitting Here Naked In The Bottom Of A Rowboat
Storing The Hummingbird Feeders For Winter
The Sweet Gossip Of Slow Snow
Taking The Train The Harmon
This Black Stone Mourns
Traveling
A Vision
Visiting The Torture Museum-in 1996
Watching American Television-july 4, 1986
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Where The Water Roams Home
While The Eastern Hemlocks Die, We Talk Of T.v. Movie Lies
The Young Girl
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Daniela Gioseffi has presented her poetry throughout North America and Europe at universities, cultural centers, and international book fairs, in Madrid, London, New York, California, Barcelona, and Venice. She's performed her works for National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the BBC in Oxford and London and for numerous other media venues. Her book, Women on War: International Writings (Feminist Press, 2003) won an American Book Award, and was published in Vienna and London. Her novel, The Great America Belly (Doubleday & Dell, NY; New English Library, London) was optioned for a screenplay by Warner Bros. Her fiction, Daffodil Dollars won a PEN, 1990 short fiction award and was aired on many NPR affiliates. In 1993, Anchor/ Doubleday published her world compendium, On Prejudice: A Global Perspective with a fifty-page introduction by Gioseffi that won a Ploughshares Fund, World Peace Award and was presented at the United Nations. Poems contained in her debut collection, Eggs in the Lake (BOA Editions, 1979), won award grants from The New York State Council for the Arts. She published three more volumes of poetry, Word Wounds & Water Flowers, 1995, and Going On, 2000 (Bordighera: VIA Folios); and Symbiosis, 2002 (Rattapallax: NY). Her verse was etched in marble on a wall of PENN Station's 7th Avenue Concourse, New York, with Ginsberg's and Whitman's. In 2003, AIAE presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Product Details

• Paperback: 63 pages
• Publisher: Bordighera Press (October 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884419356
• ISBN-13: 978-1884419355
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,964,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lyrical and imaginative. Vibrant poems full of life., September 9, 2004

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This review is from: Going On: Poems 2000 (Via Folios, 23) (Paperback)

Daniela Gioseffi's poems in Going On, are lyrical and imaginative. Her passion for life and love of nature are truly breathtaking. I honestly believe that she cares deeply about every word and image conveyed in these poems -- From reflective poems like "The Sweet Gossip of Slow Snow" to the intensity of "Visiting The Torture Museeum" Gioseffi helps us see the beauty of the world, by juxtaposing it with the ugly aspects of humankind.

5.0 out of 5 stars An Original Poet of Humane Vision, August 23, 2001

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This review is from: Going On: Poems 2000 (Via Folios, 23) (Paperback)

Daniela Gioseffi is one of the finest and most original poets of our time. It's a pity she isn't even better known than she is. She deserves to be listed among the best, not only for her subtle use of language, original imagery and melodic cadence, but for her humane stance on important issues. Here is a poet who knows something about the real world and how it works in such poems as "Divorce or Corrasable Bond" where she writes: "The last ghosts of Indians are asking for food in the amber waves of dying grain," or in "The Plan"where she writes "all seed through 'corporate engineering' was lost to greed." she catches the real pulse of our time and there are many such poems which address the issues of being alive on this planet, here and now, with graceful awareness of reality.

5.0 out of 5 stars VITAL POETRY, August 16, 2001

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This review is from: Going On: Poems 2000 (Via Folios, 23) (Paperback)

A surrealist imagination with a concern for real issues. There Is courage in these poems, real caring about the human condition. Much poetry is vapid and self-involved. Gioseffi is informed by genuine urgency for wordly concerns and lyric eloquence-- a rare combination of heart, head and craft.